Why did I choose 'Amety' for a name?

Ellooo :D First things first: just wanna drop a thank you to everyone’s support so far - it’s more than I ever thought I’d have already and it’s only been like almost two weeks. Love y’all xx

So I promised to mention where Amety Games got its name from. Buckle in for this, and get some snacks too. And a drink. And one for me.

Well for starters it comes from “Amethyst”, a pretty gemstone, usually a light purple, chosen mainly because it’s one of those items that happens to be in so many different games, especially ones I happen to play: Minecraft, Stardew, Deep Rock, Terraria, Celeste (in some way)… I also have synesthesia, so to me, Amethyst looks quite pretty and colourful. I think it would also be funny if all Amety games had amethyst in them some way or another :3

However I was really anxious about three things: potential typos, potenial meth jokes, and I just can’t pronounce the “th” sound - all thanks to my very helpful Maltese accent, so I either pronounce “th” as “t” (most times) or “f”. I though of using using the Maltese word for Amethyst - which at first I found a source that said it’s Ametista, which I really liked - it was still close enough to Amethyst and elimanate the other 3 issues. Buuut not only was Ametista Games already taken, turns out a more trustier source (Il-Miklem (a really good resource for Maltese specific vocab!)) claimed it’s actually Amatista.

Amatista sounds a little too far from Amethyst which is what I originally wanted. And that’s when it clicked: Amety. And as soon as my best friend called it “nice and sweet” I just knew that was the right one. So Amety it is.

Besides, Amety comes before Apple in the phonebook, which itself is ahead of another games maker, Atari ;) So I suppost all three start with A and are 5 letters long, which I afterthought would be silly too. (Oh yeh me and Atari have the same birthday, only a few decades apart pfff)

Now why did I add “Games” and not something a little more vague like “Studios” or “Interactive” or whatever? Eh they just sounded a little more corporatey- and I didn’t want that. I want to keep Amety as indie and human as possible.

So that’s it for today’s post. Sometime soon I wanna get more into the games themselves. And build a little more on Amety’s identity - we don’t even have a little png to rep it! :’)

April 23rd edit: I somehow completely forgot to mention why I chose a vague name and not pull a Hakita or Toby Fox, or choose something like Freddie Makes Games or something. Well truth be told, I’m someone that for whatever reason pressured myself to do everything on my own because it gives a “false sense” of myself and the project being more “valid”. So I wanted to have a reminder for myself that I don’t need to do this project on my own; and to give space for me to bring on friends and other ppl willing to help out, and I’m lucky to be surrounded by a few rly amazing friends that already wish to give a hand. Xx